Managing crises in tourism resilience strategies from the Caribbean /
This book examines the dilemma of overdependence on tourism in Caribbean countries and territories, and the need for a resilient path to address the industrys vulnerability in the face of natural disasters. The chapters in the book question how tourism resilience is understood and practiced in Carib...
| Other Authors: | Lewis-Cameron, Acolla., Jordan, Leslie-Ann., Roberts, Sherma., SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2021.
Cham, Switzerland : 2021. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1:-Background and Theoretical Context
- Chapter 1:- Introduction
- Chapter 2:- Understanding Small Island States & Territories by Acolla Lewis-Cameron & Leslie-Ann Jordan-Miller
- Chapter 3:- Conceptualising Resilience in Small Island States by Sherma Roberts
- Part 2:-Environmental Resilience
- Chapter 4:- Cruise Tourism and Resilience in Marine Ecosystems in the Caribbean: A Socio-Environmental Study of St. Lucia by Myrna Ellis
- Chapter 5:- Tourism Resilience in the Caribbean island of Cozumel: Best practice and high risk areas by Kennedy Obombo Magio
- Chapter 6:- A resilient eco-tourism island: A case study of Dominica and its tourism recovery strategies post 2017 Hurricane Maria by Tenisha Brown-Williams and Amanda Charles
- Part 3:- Socio-Cultural Resilience
- Chapter 7:- Community resilience in the face of a natural disaster: Puerto Ricos adventure tourism industry by Mechelle Best and Jose H. Gonzalez
- Chapter 8:-An Integrated Path Towards a Resilient Tourism Sector in North-East Tobago by Aljoscha Wothke, Joanna Moses-Wothke and Leslie-Ann Jordan
- Chapter 9:-From exclusive to exclusion zone and back again: Marketing Montserrat under the Mount Chance eruptions by Johnathan Skinner
- Chapter 10:-Building a resilient tourism future through youth involvement and consumer-centric service excellence in Grenada by Marion Joppe & Kimberly Thomas-Francois
- Part 3:-Economic Resilience
- Chpater 11:-Increasing the Resilience of Micro, Small and Medium Tourism Enterprises to Tropical Cyclones in Small Island Developing States by Thalia Balkaran and David Smith
- Chapter 12:-Building Resilience by Strengthening the Link between Tourism and Agriculture: An Assessment of the Purchasing Patterns of Selected Hotels in Jamaica by Eritha Huntley-Lewis, Tolulope Bewaji and Clive Scott
- Chapter:- An analysis of economic and political resilience strategies adopted by The Bahamas as an archipelagic Small Island Development State by Sophia Rolle
- Chapter 14:-Integrative Entrepreneurship as a Tourism Resilience Strategy for Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Castara, Tobago by Shinelle Smith and Leslie-Ann Jordan-Miller
- Chapter 15:- Hotel Resilience to Terrorist Threats Is there a case for Barbados? by Vincent Bradshaw
- Chapter 16:- The tension between lives and livelihoods- an analysis of resilience strategies by tourism-dependent Caribbean territories by Sherma Roberts
- Conclusion.